Chapter 8 Chapter VIII Man-made Disasters and Natural Disasters

It was the evening of the next day when Ling Duyu returned to the camp. While taking a bath and rest in front of Yunsi, Ling Duyu told Shen Ling the whole story in detail. Shen Ling said: "The situation has developed to this point, why don't you find a place for Yun Silan and Axiu to avoid the limelight?" Ling Duyu sighed and said: "With the power of the prince, as long as he offers a reward, even if he hides in the bottom of the sky, he will find it. So what about your side? According to our mining team, there should be A lot of his people have mixed in, and he can cause us a lot of trouble with a single phone call."

Shen Ling showed a sly smile and said: "After you escaped from the prince last night, didn't you give me a warning call? From that moment on, all external communication was interrupted." attitude. Ling Duyu smiled and said: "As expected of an old fox, we are now in a race against time. How far has mining developed?" Shen Ling whispered: "The project is going on day and night, and at any moment, it may reach that thing." Ling Duyu was refreshed, and the wireless phone on the table rustled, and Ellis' voice came: "Dr. Shen! Something strange happened on the oil platform, please come here immediately!"

The two suddenly looked at each other.The most important moment has finally come. Fifteen minutes later, the two climbed onto the rig. Everyone gathered around the drill hole.Thick smoke continued to rise from the oil well. Shen Ling strode forward first, and Ellis faced the soil and said: "There is a strange hard object underneath, the drill bit can't penetrate it, but the drill bit melted due to the high heat generated by friction." Without even thinking about it, Shen Ling said, "Hang the drill out of the oil well and prepare for the elevator. I want to go down and see it myself."

Ellis said in a deep voice, "Dr. Shen, I have a request." Shen Ling was startled and said, "Say it!" Ellis asked, "What's down there?" Shen Ling smiled and said, "If I knew, why would I go down to see it?" Ellis said: "I have a reason to ask this, because the polycrystalline drill bit we use is the hardest ore layer. It can also break into..." Ling Duyu patted Ellis on the shoulder and said, "Old Ai! The matter will be resolved soon, time is running out, so hurry up and do it." Alice hesitated for a moment, and finally turned around.

Shen Ling came to Ling Duyu's side with an unusually gloomy expression. Ling Duyu looked at him strangely and said, "Aren't you happy that you finally arrived at that thing?" Shen Ling looked at dozens of people who were busy at work, and sighed, "There is a question that you and I have ignored." Ling Duyu said: "The spaceship is right below, what's the big deal?" Shen Ling looked at Ling Duyu and said, "How do we get in?" Ling Duyu was dumbfounded, he thought of Shen Ling's question.For a long time, they wanted to go underground to find the spaceship, but since the matter of the spaceship is made of indestructible matter, how could they enter the spaceship.

When the drill bit was hoisted away from the drilling well, it was already half past six the next morning. The bit melted into a scrap of scrap metal, completely deformed. Several engineers headed by Ellis inspected the deformed polycrystalline drill bit in disbelief. This is an unheard of strange event in the oil industry. Shen Ling was not interested in the drill bit at all, and personally ordered the workers to remove the drill bit and replace it with a manned lift. Ling Duyu asked Ellis, "When can I go down?" Ellis said: "It will take about four to five hours to clean up the drilling, and it should be ready after noon." He lowered his voice and said, "Do you think that guy Shannaxing looks weird?"

Shanna Xing was the only Indian engineer. At this time, he was standing next to another American engineer, Dr. Wei Zheng, with a nervous expression. Both suspect that he is someone sent by the prince to watch them. Ling Duyu shrugged his shoulders, and said, "Keep an eye on him, and let us know if you have any questions." Ellis still wanted to talk, but Shen Ling came over and said, "Xiao Ling! We have a distinguished guest, come! Let's go together." Ling Duyu wondered: "Who can remove you from this darling well?" Shen Ling blushed and said, "It's your and my mutual lover: Hailanna."

Suddenly, Ling Duyu stepped forward before Shen Ling's old fist hit his spine. When the two happily came to the simple living room of the camp, Hailanna couldn't wait to greet them, and the two naturally reached out to help, three people, three hands holding each other.The three stayed together at the same time. Ling Duyu held Hailanna's left hand, and Shen Ling, who was holding her right hand, smiled wryly: "Do you really want one and half?" Shen Ling shook his beard all over his face, and said in the tone of a big brother: "You have so many women, let this one go to the big brother!"

Ling Duyu sighed and said, "Brother Buli, okay." He handed the slender hand to Shen Ling pretending to be helpless. Shen Ling accepted it honestly and took the opportunity to open her mouth wide and kiss the flushed Hailanna's pretty face. Hailanna couldn't bear the beard's harassment, she leaned back to avoid, and at the same time pulled back a pair of jade hands that were exchanged as goods, and said: "You guys really love to play, I'm so anxious that I'm going to die!" Ling Duyu smiled and said: "Don't die, if you die, our great explorer will die in love and follow the spring."

Hailanna flicked the bangs in front of her forehead lightly, her tense expression relaxed a little, she pouted angrily and said, "I called, but the phone didn't work..." At this time, Yun Silan walked in and greeted: "Helanna! Hello." Helanna was stunned and said, "Why are you here?" Ling Duyu said: "I'll talk about this later, come on! Tell me the purpose of your visit first." Everyone sat down, Hailanna glanced at Yun Silan, and stopped talking. Shen Ling and the two immediately knew that Hai Lanna's trip was related to the prince, and they were very awe-inspiring.

Shen Ling said: "They are all our own people, don't worry about it!" Yun Silan was smart and confessed: "I left the prince, and I have become someone he wants to kill and is willing to kill." Hai Lanna didn't dare to touch Shen Ling's burning eyes, she looked at Ling Duyu and said, "The prince and Dade are fighting..." Turning her eyes to Yun Silan, she continued: "You must have already known, and I have been paying close attention to the affairs between them. In the early hours of the day before yesterday, Dade used some method to touch the prince's lair. In the fierce war, both sides suffered heavy casualties, but on the whole, the prince had the upper hand with his strong latent power. At this critical moment, Wang Yu suddenly came to see my father and begged him to come forward and make peace with Dade. Not like a prince's character!" Ling Duyu, Shen Ling and Yun Silan looked at each other, they already knew the reason why the prince did this. Bingran Hailanna said: "The prince exchanged Dade's truce with conditions that were not beneficial to him, and then mobilized elite personnel to prepare to come to Varanasi. As soon as I got the news, I immediately took advantage of my father's truce." The private plane is coming, alas! I think he will arrive any moment, so I am here to inform you to escape." Shen and Ling were silent. They have always used strategy and conspiracy to gain the upper hand, but if they want to confront the prince head-on, they will undoubtedly stand in the way of their arms, and there will be no victory. Ling Duyu looked at Yun Silan, before she could speak, the latter said decisively: "Unless everyone goes together, I would rather die in battle than be hunted around like a cat and a mouse." Shen Ling said: "The green hills are here, even if there is no firewood, but before we leave, let's go to the bottom of the oil well once, assuming we can really get in there, it's better than fleeing around outside." Ling Duyu laughed and said, "Old Shen, do you still remember Kenya in Africa in 1978?" Shen Ling also laughed, and said: "Of course I remember, that time we also won more with less, okay! Time is running out, let's go to the oil rig..." The four stood up and walked out the door.The sun is hot outside, and the heat is unbearable. There are undulating mountains near and far, and the dirt road leading to the camp is completely deserted.A beautiful and hot noon. The drilling rig of the oil rig stands tall behind, in the middle of the Wanassi Basin, shining brightly in the sun. Everything is so peaceful. What's more, it was unusually quiet, the chirping of insects and birds all around disappeared at once, and there was no sound at all. The four walked to the jeep parked outside the house. Yun Silan said: "The weather is really frighteningly hot. Last night I slept in the room, even though I was so tired, I still woke up many times." Ling Duyu's heart moved, and he looked at Shen Ling, who was looking up at the sky. The clouds in the sky did not move. Although the sun is still shining, the sky is extremely gloomy, which makes people feel flustered. The four came to the jeep.A strange loud sound sounded. "Woooo..." It seemed that thousands of planes were starting their engines together. The world shook violently, the surrounding objects shook together, and the grass under my feet wobbled, as if about to fall into the abyss.The four fell to the ground together. "Clatter..." The nearby houses fell down, and the dust flew up for a long time. The earthquake lasted for more than ten seconds, but it was as long as an entire century. quiet! Ling Duyu jumped up and helped the pale Yun Silan beside her. Shen Ling and Hai Lanna got up one after another. Most of the houses around the camp fell down.The direction of the drill floor was full of voices. Shen Ling jumped up and cheered: "It didn't fall! It didn't fall!" The drilling rig in the distance stands still. Ling Duyu said: "Come on! Get in the jeep." The four jumped into the jeep and drove towards the rig. Except for the collapsed houses and the workers running around, everything seems to be intact. Shen Ling drove the car, and said in a deep voice: "This may be the first shock before the big earthquake, we must hurry." Ling Duyu looked at the scattered camp behind him, and said, "Fortunately, everyone is working outside at this moment, otherwise there will inevitably be casualties." The Jeep is parked next to the drill floor. More than a hundred workers are swarming down from the four ladders. When the four of them came to the ladder, Dr. Wei Zheng, an American engineer, just climbed down and said to Shen Ling, "Dr. Shen, the project seems to be suspended." Shen Ling said: "How is the drilling situation?" Wei Zhengdao: "On the surface, there seems to be no major problem. The problem is that according to my experience with earthquakes, this kind of relatively mild earthquake is very likely to be the prelude to a major earthquake. Therefore, until further information is obtained, I don't think anyone is suitable. It’s very dangerous to stay on the rig and continue working because the earthquake can collapse the well.” Shen Ling said: "Alright! Evacuate the workers to a safe place first." Dr. Weizheng led the way.The four climbed onto the rig floor. The huge stage was quiet, only the chief engineer Ellis and the Indian engineer Shan Naxing stood in front of the elevator hanging at the entrance of the drilling. Ellis greeted him and said, "Don't worry, basically all the equipment is fine." Shen Ling said: "Can I go down and take a look now?" Ellis looked up at the high top of the drilling tower, shook his head and said: "The hoisting shaft on the top of the tower is a bit inappropriate..." Looking at the deserted drilling floor, he sighed and said: "It seems that I have to go up in person. Check it out, it will take a while, why don't you go back to the camp first, and I will notify you immediately when I fix the lifting equipment." Shen Ling pondered for a while and said: "Going down to investigate is the top priority, do you want us to help you?" Ellis said: "No need, I'm sure to fix it, you should go back first, assuming there is another earthquake, this is the most dangerous place." Ling Duyu wondered: "Aren't you afraid of danger?" Ellis laughed and said: "I'm terribly afraid, but I have a bad habit in my life, that is, I hope that everything will have a result. If I can't go down to see what's going on, I won't be able to sleep peacefully in the days to come. Okay! I'm going up. .” Shen Ling patted Ling Duyu's shoulder and said, "Come on!" He walked towards the ladder first. After getting off the ladder, the four got into the jeep. Shen Ling said: "Xiao Ling, for the safety of the two young ladies, I think you should take them away for a while, and leave me here alone to deal with everything. I promise to take a look at 'it' and rush to meet you immediately meet." Ling Duyu thought for a while, and said: "That's fine!" If he fell to the bottom of the well, at worst, he would just take a look at the impenetrable shell of the "spaceship", and avoid him before the prince came, which is the practical way . The car drives out. At the exit of the camp, seven or eight large trucks, full of workers, drove in the direction of Varanasi. The last truck was upright. He poked his head out from the driver's seat and shouted, "The radio report indicated that the epicenter of the earthquake was the Wanassi Basin. This place is extremely dangerous. There will be another earthquake at any time. Leave quickly..." Ling Duyu frowned and said, "Why such a coincidence?" Shen Ling said listlessly: "No matter what, it's best to walk." At this time, he also felt like retreating.At the last minute, everything went so badly. Ling Duyu was about to speak... "boom!" The four of them were stunned at the same time, and the sound of gunfire came from the direction of the drill platform. Shen Ling stepped on the accelerator, turned around, and the jeep sped towards the drilling platform. Climb up the rig. Ellis half-kneeled on the stage, looking at Shanna Xing lying in front of him. The blood on the latter's forehead continued to flow out, staining the tabletop with blood red, lifeless.A .38 pistol lay aside. Shen Ling said in a deep voice, "What happened?" Alice stood up and said: "When I climbed to the top of the tower, I saw Shannaxing installing something on the top of the elevator. I immediately climbed down and questioned him, but he actually pulled out a gun and wanted to kill me. , I rushed forward to stop him, during the entanglement, the pistol went off..." Shen Ling didn't say a word, and used the escalator next to the elevator fuselage to climb up to the top of the machine. Ling Duyu knelt beside Shan Naxing's body and searched his pockets. Shen Ling shouted: "I found it, it's explosives." Ling Duyu stood up, looked at Ellis, Shen Ling climbed down, took two packs of plastic explosives in his right hand, and said, "This amount is enough to blow up the steel cables that hang the elevator." An electronic device as big as a matchbox said: "This is the detonator. There should be another remote control on his body." Ling Duyu stretched out his left hand, and there was an instrument of the same size in his palm, and said, "This is it." Hailanna and Yun Yulan's pretty faces were pale. If Shanna's star poison scheme succeeded and the elevator slid down from such a height, the death would be unimaginable. Shen Ling breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's dangerous! Our guess is correct, Shanna Xing is indeed sent by the prince." Ling Duyu said in a deep voice: "Wrong!" He pulled out a pistol with his right hand and pointed at Ellis. Everyone was stunned. Ellis changed color: "What is this?" Ling Duyu took out another gold chain with his left hand, on which was hung a gold medal with ancient Sanskrit characters, and handed it to Hailanna. Hailanna whispered, "This is the shield of our teacher." Ling Duyu said: "Yes! The Sanskrit on the gold medal reads 'Biyijiao', and I took it off Shannaxing's head." Ellis said angrily, "Which means what?" Ling Duyu said: "That means he is not from the prince's side, you are, and the wound was not done at close range, you shot him dead about ten feet away." Ellis' face turned pale, and he argued forcefully, "It doesn't mean anything?" A voice came from the side of the stage: "What does he represent? Ellis." prince! Everything happened very quickly, before the prince finished speaking, more than a thousand big men rushed up the oil platform from the ladder leading to the drilling platform, with automatic weapons in their hands, and surrounded everyone at once. The prince was dressed in light yellow Indian traditional clothes, with a big blue diamond at least sixty or seventy in the middle of the snow-white headscarf. Shi Shiran came to Ling and Chen and said, "Mr. Ling! Drop your pistol .” Ling Duyu snorted and dropped the pistol. Yun Silan's face was as white as a dead person's, and as the prince's grievances must be repaid, the miserable future can already be imagined. The prince walked up to Ellis, grabbed his shoulders and said to Ling Chen and the two of them: "You can't imagine this, Ellis is my old classmate and friend, and he keeps in touch with me by radio all the time, so even though you destroy I still know everything about this place well after I got the communication." Then he said to Ellis, "Have we got our murder plan done?" Ai Li expected to go to the top of the tower, and said: "Although Shanna Xing discovered the explosives installed on the top of the elevator, I also installed explosives on the suspension shaft of the crane on the top of the tower. As long as the elevator goes down a hundred meters, it can automatically launch." The prince admired: "Good job! Now, Dr. Shen Da and Mr. Ling Duyu are invited to enter the elevator together." Hailanna screamed: "No! You can't do this, my dad will never let you go." The prince said respectfully to Hai Lanna: "No, as long as you are in good health, your father will never hurt the harmony of his family for a few outsiders, but for my beloved, I would like to give you a choice, as long as you Say, one of them, there is no need to enter the elevator." Hai Lanna looked at Shen Ling, then at Ling Duyu, shook her head and said, "No!" Ling Duyu smiled lightly and said, "What's so difficult about this!" He strode towards the elevator. Shen Ling shouted violently: "No!" As he was about to rush forward, the muzzles of several cold guns immediately pressed against his back. Ling Duyu stepped into the elevator. The prince smiled and said, "This is the best choice." Yun Silan said: "I am also with him." The prince strode over and slapped her pretty face, knocking her down on the stage, and said harshly, "Do you want to die? It's not easy." Hailanna screamed angrily, and was about to help Yun Silan up, but was pulled by two big men. A soft voice came from the other corner of the stage: "Khanali, is this how Brahma taught you to treat your own kind?" The prince looked at the place where the voice came from in horror. Chanali was the name given to him by the leader when he entered Hinduism, and no one knew it. An old man in a white robe stepped onto the oil platform. As soon as Hailanna struggled, she realized that the two big men behind her had let go of her grip, and rushed to the old man, shouting: "Holy One, he..." Saint Lantner smiled and said, "Needless to say, I know everything." The sound of "web! web" came from all around, and the prince knelt down on his hands. They are all devout Hindus. The purpose of following the prince is to restore the glory of Hinduism. The saint of Lantner is in their hearts. It is no longer a person, but a god. The prince's face was pale, his lips trembled, but he couldn't speak. The saint's face exuded a holy radiance, and he said to the prince, "Khanali! Let's leave this matter as it is. You go away!" Wang Yu jumped up, rushed to the elevator, pointed at Ling Duyu, who included Zhuo Li, and said, "Holy One! You are the person I respect the most, but this person is the enemy of my teaching. He is the one who destroys our dreams." people." The saint said lightly: "Your dream is just a delusion. Our real dream is not 'here'; but 'beyond here'. Don't you understand?" With a sullen voice, he said: "Others are afraid of you, old ghost, but I am not." Ellis.He held a large-caliber pistol in his hand. "Boom!" The flames from the muzzle of the gun flashed. Saint Lantner's whole body was shocked, but strangely, he was not knocked down by the fierce bullets. Blood quickly gushed out from the heart on his chest, and the blood stains rapidly expanded. Everyone stayed together. The saint's face was as calm as before, with a strange smile on his face, and he said lightly, "This is the only way to the other side." He fell down. The posture of the fall was very strange. Usually when people fall to the ground, their feet must lose their support and they staggered and fell, but he was like a stiff wooden stick, straight "bang" and hit the stage without moving. Hailanna beside him was the first to scream. The prince turned pale, shook his head and said, "No! It's not true." If the Indians are taught to know that Ratna the Raja died because of him, he will have no place in India.At the same time as the saint fell down, Ling Duyu's face turned blue suddenly, and he retreated uncontrollably, and slammed into the iron wall of the elevator behind him with a "bang". Everyone's attention was focused on the saint, and no one noticed him. Cold sweat streamed down from his forehead, and Ling Duyu gave birth weakly against the wall of the machine. A pain that was unbearable even with his hard work and physical strength, struck into his brain like a thunderbolt, and penetrated into every nerve of him. He moaned, "Holy One!" It is the Lanterna Sage. At the moment when the watcher fell to the ground, Ling Duyu's extraordinary spiritual sense felt a huge energy body rushing into the sea of ​​his mind like a raging tide, stirring up a huge wave that was difficult to control. He clearly heard that the saint A voice called in his heart: "Don't be afraid! Let's go hand in hand!" Ling Duyu felt the soul of the saint blending into his soul.What the saint dies is the physical body, but the primordial spirit and power condensed by his spiritual energy are gathered but not dispersed. He hissed miserably, opened his eyes closed due to pain, and found himself standing up. His actions made him even more frightened. His finger was on the "lower" button inside the elevator. His cry drew everyone's attention back to him.No one knows what happened. "Woo!" A strange voice sounded. The entire drilling floor vibrated strongly.The steel tower swayed like a blade of grass in the strong wind. No one on the stage could keep upright, and they all rolled down on the stage.The big earthquake finally came. The iron door of the elevator slowly landed on the platform. The prince couldn't stand still, he staggered back, took only two steps, and suddenly bumped into the crack of the iron door of the elevator. The elevator doors held him firmly.The prince uttered a piercing cry. The elevator descended slowly and retracted into the drilling well. Continuous decline. "Boom!" There was a strong fire and explosion on the top of the drilling tower, and the steel cable was disconnected. The elevator suddenly accelerated, crashed into the bottom of the well, and rushed down a height of nearly a thousand meters. The prince's body was on fire under the intense friction with the air.